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Estimating Climate Finance Mobilization Toward $100 Billion and Beyond

  • Climate
  • International Climate Action
  • COP20
  • climate investment funds
  • climate finance
  • Finance
Making the transition to a low-carbon, climate-resilient economy is going to take a lot of investment, and the limited budgets of the public sector can’t tackle it alone. Photo by DFID/Flickr.
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How to Make Progress on Climate Adaptation during COP 20

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  • Climate Resilience
  • Climate
  • climate change
In Lima, negotiators have a short window of opportunity to cut through a tangled knot of potential issues in order to chart a clear path to an agreement that accelerates adaptation action in Paris. Photo by UN/Flickr.
  • International Climate Action
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  • Climate Resilience
  • Climate
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ADVISORY: Latin American Countries to Launch Initiative 20x20 to Restore 20 Million Hectares of Degraded Land

  • Forests
  • Equity & Governance
  • COP20
  • restoration
  • international climate policy
  • UNFCCC
  • Forests
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  • COP20
  • restoration
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What Would Success Look Like at COP 20 in Lima?

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  • climate change
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  • UNFCCC
Lima is a major milestone on the path to Paris and the 2015 climate agreement. Photo credit: Wikimedia Commons
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6 Graphs Explain the World’s Top 10 Emitters

  • International Climate Action
  • COP20
  • climate change
  • GHG emissions
  • Equity & Governance
  • UNFCCC
China currently ranks as world's largest emitter of greenhouse gases. Photo by Ding Zhou/Flickr
  • International Climate Action
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  • climate change
  • GHG emissions
  • Equity & Governance
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Opportunities in New Climate Economy

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  • Economics
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  • Paris Agreement
Chinese President Xi Jinping and U.S. President Barack Obama. Photo by U.S. Embassy, The Hague/Flickr.
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  • Economics
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  • Paris Agreement

The China-U.S. Climate Agreement: By the Numbers

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  • GHG emissions
  • UNFCCC
China plans to increase the share of non-fossil fuels in primary energy consumption to around 20 percent by 2020. (Yunnan, China) Photo by Mingjia Zhou/Flickr.
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Towards A New Global Development Agenda: 5 Key Questions

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  • climate change
  • development
  • poverty
  • low carbon development
  • sustainable development goals
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  • Paris Agreement
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  • development
  • poverty
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Why Community Land Rights Belong in the Sustainable Development Goals

  • Equity & Governance
  • International Climate Action
  • land rights
  • low carbon development
  • sustainable development goals
  • United Nations
The proposed Sustainable Development Goals leave out a critical component of improving rural livelihoods—securing community land rights. Photo credit: Jane Boles, Flickr
  • Equity & Governance
  • International Climate Action
  • land rights
  • low carbon development
  • sustainable development goals
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Injecting Urgency into the World Bank's Climate Change Efforts

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  • poverty
  • low carbon development
  • sustainable development goals
  • multilateral development banks
•	Plans for the Metro Colombo Urban Development project in Colombo, Sri Lanka, acknowledge that the metro area is highly vulnerable to flooding. Photo credit: Travlr, Flickr 2006
  • Climate
  • climate change
  • climate finance
  • poverty
  • low carbon development
  • sustainable development goals
  • multilateral development banks
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Designed for the Future?

5 Big Energy Stories of 2013

  • Equity & Governance
  • climate change
  • low carbon development
  • sustainable development goals
President Barack Obama at the DeSoto Next Generation Solar Energy Center (Photo Credit: Wikipedia)
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  • climate change
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  • sustainable development goals

Global Efforts to Tackle Poverty and Climate Change Must Come Together

  • Climate
  • Food
  • climate change
  • Equity & Governance
  • poverty
  • low carbon development
  • sustainable development goals
  • United Nations
This week, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon will address two of the most pressing challenges of our time: poverty and climate change. Photo credit: M. DeFreese/CIMMYT
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  • Food
  • climate change
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  • low carbon development
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  • United Nations

The Post-2015 Development Agenda: Linking Sustainability and Poverty Eradication

  • Climate
  • multilateral development banks
  • poverty
  • low carbon development
  • sustainable development goals
  • United Nations
  • Climate
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  • poverty
  • low carbon development
  • sustainable development goals
  • United Nations

4 Issues to Watch: Recommendations for the Post-2015 Development Agenda

  • Equity & Governance
  • poverty
  • low carbon development
  • sustainable development goals
  • United Nations
  • Equity & Governance
  • poverty
  • low carbon development
  • sustainable development goals
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Outcomes of Johannesburg

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